Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... extremely dark . He had his picture painted by Legoux of Angers , and allowed it to remain for a long time with the painter , before he sent for it . Legoux said to him one day , " Sir , I think you had better send for your portrait ...
... extremely dark . He had his picture painted by Legoux of Angers , and allowed it to remain for a long time with the painter , before he sent for it . Legoux said to him one day , " Sir , I think you had better send for your portrait ...
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... extremely ill - informed , and incompetent person for the situation . He was afterwards in- troduced to the King , with whom he talked of the beauties of the palace , and of the choice which he had made of a librarian . He told him he ...
... extremely ill - informed , and incompetent person for the situation . He was afterwards in- troduced to the King , with whom he talked of the beauties of the palace , and of the choice which he had made of a librarian . He told him he ...
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... extremely suspicious . Desnoyers , his valet - de - chambre , was the only person allow- ed to sleep in his apartment , or to awaken him . Before lying down , he was in the custom of in- specting every corner of the room . One day ...
... extremely suspicious . Desnoyers , his valet - de - chambre , was the only person allow- ed to sleep in his apartment , or to awaken him . Before lying down , he was in the custom of in- specting every corner of the room . One day ...
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... extremely disfigured , had caused the death of several persons . He never allowed any one to look at it without challenging him on the spot . Having quarrelled with Mondori , the actor , he forbade him to make his appearance on the ...
... extremely disfigured , had caused the death of several persons . He never allowed any one to look at it without challenging him on the spot . Having quarrelled with Mondori , the actor , he forbade him to make his appearance on the ...
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... extremely proud of their nobility , who are able to produce no better title to it , than a sentence condemning some of their ancestors to be beheaded . LX . FRENCH FANATIC . In 1424 , a female devotee at Bourg , in Bresse , proclaimed ...
... extremely proud of their nobility , who are able to produce no better title to it , than a sentence condemning some of their ancestors to be beheaded . LX . FRENCH FANATIC . In 1424 , a female devotee at Bourg , in Bresse , proclaimed ...
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